You want to wait on the decision to sell because you hope for a higher price. However, a longer period entails its own costs. Our editorial calculation method for Austria and Germany compares only the variants you yourself set. It does not forecast any price development and does not recommend a particular sale price.
Describe two actually different paths
Use the same property and the same intended scope of sale. Variant A stands for an earlier completion; Variant B for an assumed longer holding period. A later offer that is merely hoped for is explicitly referred to as an assumption.
Differ between legal commitment, payment of the purchase price and your own move-out. For the model calculation each cash flow needs the period that actually triggers it. The article does not set a due date and does not treat an existing offer automatically as freely acceptable.
Record only the additional expenses of the waiting variant
Which expenses change precisely because of the longer duration? Use your actual agreements and known amounts for this. What occurs equally in both paths does not explain any difference for this comparison. Previously sunk past expenses are not counted again as costs of the additional waiting.
For loan instalments, repayment and financing costs are not treated as identical without examination. Repayment may reduce a debt to be redeemed later; its mere disbursement is therefore not identical to additional economic cost without further calculation. You should assess tax and financing effects individually.
A completely invented learning model
For four additional months the model assumes monthly actually additional costs of 600 euros. In addition, a one-off 900 euros is assumed for care that is only included in this variant. The difference thus amounts to four times 600 plus 900, that is 3.300 euros.
- 2.000 euros: minus 1.300 euros
- 3.300 euros: 0 euros
- 6.000 euros: plus 2.700 euros
The model explicitly assumes unchanged other payment effects. It does not take into account individual tax or uncertain damage or financing effects. The 3.300 euros are therefore only the calculatory threshold of this invented model, not a generally required price premium.
Do not hide uncertainty behind an average
Also consider a course without any extra price and a longer duration than initially thought. If the plan is only viable with the best assumed outcome, that is precisely the information for your decision. The article does not assign any invented probability of occurrence to any course of events.
Not every burden belongs in a monetary line. Additional care, tied-up time and personal strain are described separately. They are not given an arbitrary euro amount solely to produce an apparently complete sum.
Prepare a renewed decision
Set as your own organisational decision when you will review the assumptions in light of new facts. Note which change would actually trigger a recalculation. This gives the waiting a justified checkpoint. A hope for additional proceeds becomes visible with its cost, without presenting itself as a confirmed market prognosis.